Relationships

At the Evaluation 2019 closing plenary in Minneapolis Jennifer Greene invited the audience of evaluators to consider how to include and prioritize grace in our evaluations. Just a few months before AEA2019 Shiree Teng and Sammy Nuñez had just published, “Measuring Love in the Journey for Justice: A Brown Paper,” where they underscore that our …

RT&C Week: Are we loving bravely enough? by Tom Kelly, Shiree Teng & Audrey Jordan Read More »

Aaniin indinawemaaganag (Hello friends/colleagues), I’m Elizabeth Taylor-Schiro/Biidaabinikwe (St. Croix Chippewa/Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe), Independent Evaluation and Research Consultant and Program Chair for AEA’s Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation TIG.  As a doctoral student whose research focuses on identity and reflexivity in evaluation, I hadn’t anticipated the level of reflexivity that I’d need to practice in 2020. …

RT&C Week: Using Reflexivity to Build Relationships, Trust, & Connection in Challenging Times and Beyond by Elizabeth Taylor-Schiro Read More »

Namaste! I’m Rakesh Mohan, Director of the Office of Performance Evaluations (OPE). My office is an independent, nonpartisan agency of the Idaho Legislature. OPE’s mission is to promote confidence and accountability in state government. For people to have confidence in government, they need to trust their government officials. Unfortunately, that trust is a scarcity these …

RT&C Week: Building Trust, an Essential Activity for Evaluators by Rakesh Mohan Read More »

Hi, we’re Kris Archie and Trilby Smith. Kris is the CEO of The Circle on Philanthropy and Aboriginal Peoples, and Trilby is an independent evaluator. We met while working on an initiative called Fostering Change, and have developed a deep working relationship and friendship over the past five years. Gratitude goes to Libby Smith for …

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I am Jara Dean-Coffey, I am a descendant of free, stolen and enslaved people. I can trace to the 1600’s on my paternal side my people working, living on and eventually owning land from the territories of the Appomattoc (Westmoreland, Va) and from the 1800’s on my maternal side, working and living on the lands …

RT&C Week: Who you are matters in the work by Jara Dean-Coffey Read More »

Hi! We are Libby Smith and Deven Wisner. On the final day of #Eval19 I (Libby) conceived this week of posts, six days of reflections on the role of relationship, trust, & connection in our field. Throughout the conference I was moved by the way these themes were emerging. I was attuned to it by …

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